Phil Factor Microsoft Boy announces his School Homework Continuing in our series of attempts to imagine how Microsoft Marketing people relate to their fellow men outside work, we give... 27 January 2008 3 min read
Phil Factor The Three Little Pigs in Java Once upon a time, in a land .far off to the west of Krakatoa called Java, .there lived three little... 22 January 2008 4 min read
Phil Factor A great programmer. I sat back in my chair the other day, and my eye happened to fall on a bookshelf with some... 18 January 2008 3 min read
David Connell SQL Data Generator 1 (Beta) – Adding UK Style Address Generators We are currently running a Beta of SQL Data Generator, and some people have requested UK style data generators. So... 10 January 2008 1 min read
Tony Davis TSQL and the Tower of Babel It is always a bit of a strain to program in several languages at once. A simple task like writing... 08 January 2008 3 min read
Damon Armstrong Disabling an ASP.NET Button when Clicked I was answering a question in the ASP.NET forums on Simple-Talk.com about how to avoid the issue of users submitting multiple... 20 December 2007 3 min read
Robert Chipperfield Should you always use a clustered index? In one of his recent editorials, Steve Jones of SQLServerCentral wondered about whether every table evar should have a primary... 17 December 2007 5 min read
Louis Davidson 2008: Initializing Table Data with Row Constructors Well, I am just discovering this feature, mostly because I never saw it demoed at any of the sessions I... 05 December 2007 3 min read
Louis Davidson Changing the owner of a database Tonight, as I was creating my sample database for my chapter on implementing the database, I learned something new, that... 05 December 2007 3 min read
András Belokosztolszki Some interesting, obscure (and absolutely useless) T-SQL syntax /*Writing ugly SQL Statements is an art. Today I’ve spenta few minutes trying to break our parser as well as... 28 November 2007 2 min read
András Belokosztolszki SQL Server 2008: Microsoft has given, and Microsoft has taken away (powersum) SQL Server 2008 November CTP came out this week. This CTP finally contains many major features that are worth playing... 22 November 2007 3 min read
Tony Davis LINQ and vNext The history of IT is littered with the corpses of software companies that assumed that a solution that worked well... 15 November 2007 3 min read
Brian Donahue Need to loosen my bindings Microsoft .NET’s runtime provides an execution engine for Just-In-Time compiled code, but it also has the clandestine capability to pre-compile code... 13 November 2007 4 min read
Phil Factor A temporary inconvenience Here is an interesting interview question. You have a PC in front of you, switched off, with a database on... 12 November 2007 2 min read
Richard Mitchell SQL Data Compare 6 API OK I admit it. During the development of SQL Data Compare 6 in order to get the product out on... 12 November 2007 3 min read
James Moore A little bit of Genius Over the years I have installed Linux distro’s many many times – the first was sometime around Red Hat 4... 09 November 2007 2 min read
Helen Joyce Free utility for converting Backup tasks in Maintenance plans to use SQL Backup To cut down a potentially laborious task of converting backup tasks in several maintenance plans to use SQL Backup we... 09 November 2007 1 min read
Louis Davidson sys.dm_exec_xml_handles d Gives you information about any sessions that are using xml documents, including stats about the XML document and usage. ... 04 November 2007 3 min read
Nigel Morse Do you yield? Yay! I’ve actually used the C# yield statement for the first time. I’ve wanted to use it ever since I... 31 October 2007 4 min read
Tony Davis What are the most innovative .NET tools? We all have our favourite websites. Not the ones we read as part of our job, but the ones we... 31 October 2007 2 min read
